Why the fuck is there a wrestling thread on this forum?

[Sydward Lartle]

I mean I thought CookdandBombd was for intelligent people, not dribbling idiots who enjoy the unedifying spectacle of musclebound louts grappling with each other in front of arenas full of knuckle draggers.

[Mr Brightside]

I thought CookdandBombd was for intelligent people

That's definitely not true.

As for the wrestling thing, my guess is it's a homoerotic thing.

[Mr_Simnock]

Some people just like it and at least its in the tv sub forum where it should be, I think thats all there is too it really.

[up_the_hampipe]

You didn't need to make a thread for this. You already stomped into the wrestling thread last night to ask the same question:

I really don't intend to sound rude here, but why the fuck is there a wrestling thread on this board? I thought this was for intelligent people, not twelve year olds. Just curious.

Yes, you really didn't intend to sound rude, until you started being rude immediately. And then you added a rude little tag as well.

But anyway if you missed it, here was my response:

If this place was just for intelligent people, you wouldn't be allowed on here to wank on at tedious length about shit comedies from 1950s.

Hope that doesn't sound rude.

[pancreas]

That's definitely not true.

As for the wrestling thing, my guess is it's a homoerotic thing.

Oh god no. It's sort of the opposite of fabulous.

That said, I accept some people like it. It was explained to me before as sort of fantasy cartoon violence of heros acted out. You pick your favourite hero and root for them. Anyway, it's a form. Once you've watched it for long enough to get the story lines, you probably dig. I just don't much want to see it myself.

I'd see some Lucha Libre, though. Apparently that's much more fabulous.

Anyway, this:

I mean I thought CookdandBombd was for intelligent people, not dribbling idiots who enjoy the unedifying spectacle of musclebound louts grappling with each other in front of arenas full of knuckle draggers.

is what you've promised not to do, isn't it? Haven't you promised not to do this?

[Sydward Lartle]

I remember having an argument with these two dickheads at school who were raving about a wrestling match they'd seen where one of the 'villains' started swinging a metal chain around which, they claimed, cracked the other competitor's head open. I tried to tell them it was all rehearsed / special effects / choreography / smoke and mirrors / bullshit but they wouldn't have it and tried to claim that I was the idiot.

When I worked at WH Smith I sold no end of WWF guff (including stickers and sticker albums) to kids of about eleven or twelve, and I can understand kids liking it, because it's just escapism to them and they don't know any better, but to see grown-up people discussing it on a forum that's supposed to be a haven for people who take comedy seriously is fucking depressing, frankly.

By the way, up_the_hampipe, show me exactly where I've talked about comedies from the 'fifties and I'll call you a lying fucker. I haven't mentioned anything on here, other than Laurel and Hardy (1930s) that's older than the sixties. And I notice who your wrestling discussion pals are - Ja'moke, the odious fucker who claimed Heart wrote Magic Man solely with the intention of having an 'iconic white rapper spit some rhymes over it' just to wind me up, and Delete Delete Delete, who made a mobile phone recording of me serving him in my day job at the time, for which most people on here called him out for being creepy and stalkerish. All of which just adds fuel to my argument that wrestling is shit for cunts, and those who like it are either extremely immature, feeble-minded, or both.

So now then.

[pancreas]

STOP THIS IMMEDIATELY.

[up_the_hampipe]

By the way, up_the_hampipe, show me exactly where I've talked about comedies from the 'fifties and I'll call you a lying fucker. I haven't mentioned anything on here, other than Laurel and Hardy (1930s) that's older than the sixties. And I notice who your wrestling discussion pals are - Ja'moke, the odious fucker who claimed Heart wrote Magic Man solely with the intention of having an 'iconic white rapper spit some rhymes over it' just to wind me up, and Delete Delete Delete, who made a mobile phone recording of me serving him in my day job at the time, for which most people on here called him out for being creepy and stalkerish. All of which just adds fuel to my argument that wrestling is shit for cunts, and those who like it are either extremely immature, feeble-minded, or both.

I was throwing your style back at you, sir. You made wildly inaccurate nasty remarks about the type of people who watch wrestling, so I made a slightly inaccurate remark about what you do on this forum. You like old comedy, you write very long posts about things.

Can't speak for my "wrestling pals", even though you just mentioned two when there's actually a fair few more that pop into that thread (not just to attack us unprovoked for having the gall to enjoy something). It's very rich of you to call us extremely immature when you're starting all this. You hate wrestling and that alone makes you feel superior to someone like me, aren't you such a grown up.

[Sydward Lartle]

That horrible moment when you invite someone back to your house and you ask them "What do you want to watch?" and they reply "You got any wrestling videos?"

GET. THE. FUCK. OUT. NOW.

[Mr Eggs]

STOP THIS IMMEDIATELY.

The Pierrots from Sector 9 won't comply to that demand.

[Monsieur Verdoux]

Why on earth do you even care, Syd? There's a point where it becomes very apparent that you're just looking for reasons to get worked up because you have far too much time to waste. It's of no consequence to you if people are interested in discussing wrestling on here, so why be obnoxious about it?

[Mr Brightside]

It's clear to me that Sydward Lartle and up_the_hampipe need to sort this out by having a wrestling match.

[pancreas]

It's clear to me that Sydward Lartle and up_the_hampipe need to sort this out by having a wrestling match.

Now that would be fabulous.

[gib]

People like following little stories though don't they, wrestling and comedies, horses fuck horses.

I like the little stories where it all kicks off on a messageboard.

[up_the_hampipe]

It's clear to me that Sydward Lartle and up_the_hampipe need to sort this out by having a wrestling match.

I think he'd rather duke it out with the guy who secretly recorded him. That's what this whole thing is really about.

[Thomas]

If you don't like something, it doesn't mean that everyone who does like it is unintelligent, idiotic, immature, or somehow lesser.

This stubborn line of reasoning - which never leads anywhere, as it is never subject to revision - is where the discussion always goes wrong.

Taste is subjective. That's it. There aren't objective Good(ie)s and Bads in the world of entertainment. Things can be discussed without immediately slagging off everybody else and never backing down.

I could never watch a whole wrestling... thing (match? game?) myself, but I really don't mind if somebody else wants to. Seriously, I do not mind. I won't even visit the thread. I'm okay with it. Have fun.

[Space ghost]

wise words indeed. let them wrestle, theyre not hurting anyone. (it's all pretend)

[Sydward Lartle]

If you tolerate this your children a NASCAR thread will be next.

[Monsieur Verdoux]

If you tolerate this your children a NASCAR thread will be next.

There already is a Motorsport thread that covers that, you'll be glad to know. People using the internet to discuss things they're enthusiastic about! Who'd have thought?

[Sydward Lartle]

Choosing to discuss wrestling and other sports aimed at proles on a fucking Guardian-approved comedy discussion site that prides itself on talking comedy seriously just strikes me as slightly incongruous, that's all. Especially as wrestling is essentially aimed at children or people who were not educated to a very high standard.

[Monsieur Verdoux]

I wouldn't worry about it.

[Glebe]

[Sydward Lartle]

Glebe mate, you're only making it worse.

[machotrouts]

Wrestling is loathsome, the only thing in the world even worse than actual sports. It made me question my sexuality as a child. How can I possibly be as gay as I think when these men are so disgusting to look at? It's as aesthetically disturbing to me as a big fat titwank. Grotesque.

What I didn't realise is that this makes me superior to anyone on the forum who is a degenerate wrestlemaniac, which I must say comes as a relief. Now if you'll excuse me I have a 10-paragraph heat recap to post in the Robot Wars thread

[Glebe]

Glebe mate, you're only making it worse.

Mean Gene can barely contain the Hulkster's rage.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

If you don't like something, it doesn't mean that everyone who does like it is unintelligent, idiotic, immature, or somehow lesser.

This stubborn line of reasoning - which never leads anywhere, as it is never subject to revision - is where the discussion always goes wrong.

It also goes wrong when the person starting the thread has documented social dysfunction where his own personal lack of empathy and his inability to distinguish between objectivity and subjectivity lead him down the same road time after time after time after time. To everyone else's annoyance.



Any bets on how long he'll last this time?

[BeardFaceMan]

Sydward, I'm gonna say something to you now that will probably wreck on of your favourite comedies for you, but fuck it. You know when Ritchie and Eddie beat each other up on Bottom and you find that entertaining? Well, they're not really hitting each other, they use special effects, noise effects, fake blood and stuntmen. Everything they do is written and rehearsed. Who the fuck wants to watch two grown men pretending to hit each other in front of an audience of braying idiots?

[Paul Calf]

Steady on. I mean, I don't like wrestling at all and would rather be caught watching bear porn than a wrestling event, but it's better than Bottom.

[Glebe]

I wonder do they post threads about satirical whimsy on the WWE forum. I do wonder that!

[JoeyBananaduck]

Hulkins And The Undietaker have gorn mad at Ethel Austin's!

Etc.